1963 Topps #179 Ron Piche
The card lists his position as shortstop; Piche was a pitcher, and pitched in every big league game he played.
Uncorrected error: The back lists him as a Shortstop; he was a Pitcher.
About Ron Piche
1963 was the one year Piche spent from start to finish on a major league roster. He got into 37 games for the Milwaukee Braves, all but one of them in relief, and posted the best earned run average of his career at 3.40, with 40 strikeouts in 53 innings and a 1-1 record. Card #179 comes out of the second series. The card lists him as a shortstop, though he never played a major league inning anywhere but the pitcher's mound.
Ronald Jacques Piche, born May 22, 1935 in Verdun, Quebec, was a right-handed pitcher who worked mostly in relief across parts of six major league seasons between 1960 and 1966. He pitched for the Milwaukee Braves, the Los Angeles Angels and the St. Louis Cardinals, appearing in 134 games, only 11 of them starts, with a 10-16 record, 12 saves, 157 strikeouts and a 4.19 ERA over 221 1/3 innings. His only full major league season came in 1963, when he worked 37 games almost entirely out of the Braves bullpen. Signed by Milwaukee as an amateur free agent in 1955, he pitched 17 professional seasons and went 130-65 with a 2.96 ERA in 500 minor league games. He then spent years with the Montreal Expos as a minor league coach, a ticket-office administrator, the club's bullpen coach in 1976 and its director of Canadian scouting from 1977 to 1985; later public relations work there earned him the nickname Monsieur Baseball. He entered the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988 and died February 3, 2011 at age 75.
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Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 226 | 0 | 7 | 77 | 94 | 37 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| SGC | 12 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #179 card?
It is card #179 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Ron Piche of the Milwaukee Braves.
Does 1963 Topps #179 have an error?
The back lists him as a Shortstop; he was a Pitcher. It was never corrected, so there is no variation to chase - every copy of #179 reads the same way.
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
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